Uruguay first participated at the Olympic Games in 1924, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. It has participated in the Winter Olympic Games only once, in 1998.
| Uruguay at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | URU |
| NOC | Uruguayan Olympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 93rd |
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| Winter appearances | |
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Uruguayan athletes have won ten medals, with two gold medals in football.
Uruguay's National Olympic Committee was created in 1923, and recognized by the International Olympic Committee the same year.
Medal tables
editMedals by Summer Games
edit| Games | Athletes |  Gold
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 Silver
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 Bronze
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Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1896 Athens |
did not participate | |||||
 1900 Paris
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 1904 St. Louis
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 1908 London
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 1912 Stockholm
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 1920 Antwerp
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| 1924 Paris |
33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19 |
 1928 Amsterdam |
22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 |
| 1932 Los Angeles |
2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 |
 1936 Berlin |
37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 1948 London |
61 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 26 |
 1952 Helsinki |
32 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 37 |
 1956 Melbourne |
21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 56 |
 1960 Rome |
34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 1964 Tokyo |
23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 |
 1968 Mexico City |
27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 1972 Munich |
13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 1976 Montreal |
9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 1980 Moscow |
did not participate | |||||
| 1984 Los Angeles |
18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 1988 Seoul |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 1992 Barcelona |
16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 1996 Atlanta |
14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2000 Sydney |
14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 64 |
 2004 Athens |
15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 2008 Beijing |
12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2012 London |
29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
 2016 Rio de Janeiro |
17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2020 Tokyo |
11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2024 Paris |
25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2028 Los Angeles |
future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane
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| Total | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 93 | |
Medals by Winter Games
edit| Games | Athletes | Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 Chamonix |
did not participate | |||||
 1928 St. Moritz
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| 1932 Lake Placid
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| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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| 1948 St. Moritz
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 1952 Oslo
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| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
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| 1960 Squaw Valley
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 1964 Innsbruck
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| 1968 Grenoble
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| 1972 Sapporo
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| 1976 Innsbruck
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| 1980 Lake Placid
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 1984 Sarajevo
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| 1988 Calgary
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| 1992 Albertville
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| 1994 Lillehammer
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| 1998 Nagano |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
| 2002 Salt Lake City |
did not participate | |||||
| 2006 Turin
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| 2010 Vancouver
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 2014 Sochi
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| 2018 Pyeongchang
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| 2022 Beijing
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| 2026 Milano Cortina |
future event | |||||
| 2030 French Alps
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| 2034 Salt Lake City
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| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
Medals by Summer Sport
edit| Sports | Gold
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Silver
|
Bronze
|
Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Football |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
 Rowing |
0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 40 |
 Cycling |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 40 |
 Basketball |
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 21 |
 Boxing |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 69 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 90 |
Medals by gender
edit| Gender | Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| Women | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mixed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
List of medalists
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "When Uruguay dominated the world of football". Retrieved 18 February 2024.
External links
edit- "Uruguay". International Olympic Committee.
- "Uruguay". Olympedia.com.
- "Olympic Analytics/URU". olympanalyt.com.
- "Comité Olímpico Uruguayo - C.O.U." (in Spanish). Comité Olímpico Uruguayo. Retrieved 2008-04-01.
- ed Berlioux, Monique (March 1979). "Uruguay and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (137). Lausanne: International Olympic Committee: 168–176. Retrieved 2008-04-01.